Gross Misconduct by Bevin Magama

Author:Bevin Magama
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: writing plays, short plays, plays, radio plays, welsh drama, african plays, devised plays
Publisher: Bevin Magama

THE BUS CONDUCTOR

1. EXT: ON THE STREET. GRANGETOWN. DAY

HELEN, BETH.

HELEN IS CARRYING HEAVY SHOPPING BAGS. SHE IS PREGNANT AND IT’S A STRAIN UPON HER. BETH, A NEIGHBOUR IS RUSHING PAST.

SOUND OF TRAFFIC

1 BETH: Hi Helen, do you need a hand?

2 HELEN: No, I’m fine, a few more yards and I’m home.

3 BETH: Where’s that husband of yours? Should be him carrying them bags.

4 HELEN: He is busy doing something.

5 BETH: Men always are.

6 HELEN: No idea what that man gets up to but it’s always important.

7 BETH: Well you mind how you go up them stairs, love. You don’t want an accident in your condition.

8 HELEN: Much more of this and I think I’ll give birth to a weight lifter.

2. EXT: INSIDE THE APARTMENT

VIVIAN CHALKIE WHITE, STEPHEN.

STEPHEN SEES HELEN COMING.

9 STEPHEN: Chalkie! Chalkie! Helen is coming. Get your trousers on.

10 CHALKIE: What? Quick Steve. She mustn’t see me like this.

11 STEPHEN: Quick Chalkie. Shit. Shit. Do your zip up.

12 CHALKIE: Yes. Yes. Pass the jacket. Quick! My cap!

BIG SIGH FROM CHALKIE

13 CHALKIE: How do I look?

14 STEPHEN: Fantastic.

3. EXT: HELEN IS CLIMBING THE STONE STAIRS. EXHAUSTED.

KEY IN LOCK. SOUND OF DOOR OPENING.

4. EXT: INSIDE THE APARTMENT. HELEN IS AT THE FRONT DOOR.

15 HELEN: What in Jesus name!

16 CHALKIE: I can explain everything.

17 HELEN: I bet you can. What have you two been up to?

18 CHALKIE: My new uniform. I get the job, Helen!

19 HELEN: What! You serious?

20 CHALKIE: Yes. I get it, Helen. 1963. The year “Chalkie” White make history. The first Jamaican bus conductor in all of Cardiff, perhaps Wales or Great Britain.

21 HELEN: Well done! Well done!

22 CHALKIE: No more lugging shopping upstairs. We gonna get us a house on the ground floor.

23 HELEN: When did you find out?

24 CHALKIE: I get a letter in the post this morning, from Cardiff City Transport. Straight away I go to the offices and they measure me up and give me the uniforms.

25 STEPHEN: Looks good, doesn’t it?

26 HELEN: Very smart.

27 STEPHEN: Congratulations, again Chalkie. I will leave you to it. I am rota’d for an afternoon cleaning shift at the depot. See you later.

STEPHEN EXITS

28 CHALKIE: Thanks Steve. Yes, later.

CHALKIE CLOSES DOOR.

29 HELEN: I’m so proud of you.

30 CHALKIE: Thanks darling. Here. Let me take the bags into the kitchen.

31 CHALKIE: Lawd man dem heavy! You shouldn’t be lifting such heavy bags.

32 HELEN: Chalkie, there is nothing to worry about. Make me a cuppa. Let’s celebrate. I love a man in uniform.

33 CHALKIE: Hang on. I gotta go coach the boys football team. Soon come back.

34 HELEN: I got a thing for footballers too.

THEY LAUGH

5. EXT: ON THE BUS . VICTORIA PARK. LATE AFTERNOON.

CHALKIE. WOMAN PASSENGER. MALE PASSENGER.

SOUND OF BUS ENGINE REVVING. DING! DING! CHALKIE STANDS BY THE BUS DOOR. OVER HIS SHOULDER, HE CARRIES THE BUS COMPANY MONEY BAG AND A TICKET MACHINE. CROWD NOISES UNDER SCENE.

35 CHALKIE: All aboard! All aboard! Plenty empty seats on top deck. Hello again, ma’am. There is an empty seat at the front.

36 WOMAN : Thank you, Chalkie.

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